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(obligatory fuckyouiwasgoingtopostthis) TRoS does one-on-one duels kinda well if that kind of hyper-realistic stuff is your thing. The Spiritual Attributes thing is an interesting concept, but I'm honestly not sure how it works in practice since I've never done a thing that involved them. On the oth...

Because you're saying that other people are too stupid to comprehend it. That's not the case at all, it's the case that the wording is too vague; the intelligence of the reader has nothing to do with it.

Do you guys think there's any way to make bounded accuracy work without making the game incredibly tedious through massive hitpoint bloat? Is the only way of making the fighter function given bounded accuracy is to give her literally thousands of hit points at high levels and give high-level opponen...

It has nothing to do with how stupid they are and everything to do with the simple fact that "reverse sanctuary" is an incredibly confusing phrase that could mean absolutely anything: it could mean that they have to pass a will save to not attack, it could mean what You Lost Me said upthre...

Kaelik, stop it. It's obvious that people are confused by the phrase "reverse sanctuary." Since you wrote the goddamn class, it's your fault, and all you have to do to fix it is splice in the text that Catharz so kindly provided.

Also, trading HP for spells at a 1:1 ratio is way too good- high level wizards can have 100+ HP which makes using 9hp to cast wish or what have you a pretty small deal. Maybe making it a 2:1 ratio or having it also incur con damage might be better.

Under the alfar write up, you have "make make magitech." Some kind of map of the Old World would also be super helpful as I'm not really sure what is where- presumably Tir na Nog is Ireland, and the kingdom of the Sun King is in France, but otherwise I have no idea. Otherwise, this is look...

I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy when I was about twelve (or so I remember) and I just got around to re-reading them. They were almost as good as I remembered them to be. Even so, they're really good. So long as you understand that the books are just as much about Mars as they are about ev...

I don't think Ork Magik is that bad- allowing a caster to base their casting off strength rather than intelligence or what have you isn't too bad, all things considered. The ninth level ability is fucking awful, though: Unless you have a strength of 44 (hint: you won't) you'd be better off not usin...

As a side note, he's given up bragging about his ability to to basic math (The math just works!) and has started complaining about people who do. Hell, even the pre 4e stuff was more solid than the current document. Wait, what the fuck? Is Mearls seriously complaining about people who critique the ...

Kaelik, would it be okay if I changed my contact in the cartels to being specifically the guy in charge of that cartel's operation in the barrio JC runs?

I don't think Ork Magik is that bad- allowing a caster to base their casting off strength rather than intelligence or what have you isn't too bad, all things considered. The ninth level ability is fucking awful, though: Unless you have a strength of 44 (hint: you won't) you'd be better off not using...

Chronologically it goes Perdido Street Station, then a few months later comes The Scar, then thirty years later comes Iron Council, but there's very little overlap between the three: the lead character of The Scar is mentioned in Perdido Street Station, but that's it, and there's no overlap between ...

Well, crap. I hadn't even started working up a combat monster (har har) so yay whipstich! In terms of plot hooks, let's not forget that JC is working for the Ulmi, so a plot hook can be something as simple as "hey youse, therese these guyses heres whos keeps musclings ins on ouir toifses, wese ...

Will you be following this up with Fire Dude, Sword Guy, and Magic Man?

Yeah, I know. I thought you meant you wanted potency/edge, not edge/max edge- I'll edit the sheet.

It's all well and good to say that torture is ineffective and doesn't actually work and that we should stop torturing because it doesn't do what people say it does, but that's not actually what's being asked some of these questions. The real question is that if a situation were to arise in which to...

Um, I was under the impression that you spent edge on tests and stuff, so I guess I'll spend it on whatever tests come up? I already factored my edge into the resistance tests, so I'm not sure what you're asking. Also, sorry about the whole combat thing. If you think the face angle is covered by Han...

It's all well and good to say that torture is ineffective and doesn't actually work and that we should stop torturing because it doesn't do what people say it does, but that's not actually what's being asked some of these questions. The real question is that if a situation were to arise in which tor...

That's actually really cool, and if we're going with an AS power system, even if we abandon the AS power schedules, it would be really easy to make that a discipline under a tech power source, as that seems like the best way to have a tech-based character. What might be a useful distinction to make ...

This will either be amazing or awful. It cannot be anything in between. Also, are you going to equate the grades of weapon and armor (daedric, orcish, whatever) with +1/2/3 numerical bonuses or are you going to make new tome armours and magical abilities?

Jean-Claude de Lyon, Ulmi, Covenant 3/3, 13/13PP, Feeding physical resistance 5, mental resistance 7, social resistance 6, soak 9, Hunger Frenzy 11, Death Threshold 7, vulnerable to wood bonuses- resource, power, attribute Attributes Strength 2 Intuition 4 Charisma 6 Edge 3 Agility 3 Logic 2 Willpo...

Let's not forget that White Raven has a no-save fuck you one-round stun that also does +6d6 damage. Admittedly, it's at 15th level and melee tends to be kinda obsolete then, but it's still pretty good.

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/6/12/3080660/cyberpunk-2020-getting-not-just-a-video-game-but-a-new-tabletop-game The decision to turn classic tabletop game Cyberpunk 2020 into a video game comes with a pleasant surprise: A brand new edition of the pen-and-paper game is in development. Speaking ...

I don't have a 3.5 group anymore as literally everyone involved either graduated, transferred, or dropped out in the same year, but people had differing opinions. One guy liked it because it was interesting and made fighters cool and blah blah blah, but another friend of mine disliked it because ToB...